Microsoft, HP Thin the Shareholder Herd to Raise Shares

By John Hazard |
Posted 2008-09-22

How does a Fortune 500 company caught in the lack of confidence hammering the stock markets put a rocket under its share price? Thin the herd.

Like conservationists killing off portions of a wildlife population to avoid famine or disease, Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have killed off a number of their public shares, a run at improving the prospects for those that remain.